Will the pain of four losses make or break the Tigers?
Tariq Ingraham of the Memphis Tigers battles the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Courtesy Memphis Athletics)
NASSAU, Bahamas — Zach Davis stood frozen at the edge of the court inside the Grand Ballroom of the Baha Mar Convention, Arts & Entertainment Center.
Dug McDaniel threw his head back as he moved to the opposite corner.
Julius Thedford, still walking on the hardwood with a basketball gripped in his left hand, turned around and moved out of the way of the black and gold mob rapidly approaching him.
Memphis players looked dejected seconds after Wake Forest’s Myles Colvin drilled an off-balance 3-pointer at the buzzer to erase his team’s 11-point second-half deficit and beat the Tigers (1-4) 69-68 in the Baha Mar Hoops Championship consolation game Friday night in the Bahamas.
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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